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New comment by pyromaker in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

pyromaker — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:21:09 +0000

Something like that - parsing and scraping have come a long way right? Plenty of different ways that are available. The adoption of various LLMs have given more options definitely. We use both traditional and LLM methods.

Show HN: I made my own price tracker tool – Marvelogs

pyromaker — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:45:41 +0000

A little tool I built to track some prices for the upcoming Christmas period. Trying to track as many things as I can. Would love to hear some feedback.

Thank you in advance!

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New comment by pyromaker in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

pyromaker — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:52:52 +0000

My latest is Marvelogs (https://www.marvelogs.com) - always wanted to build a price tracker (or tracking any values on a regular basis) - it's nearly there.

New comment by pyromaker in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

pyromaker — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:12:27 +0000

I missed Yahoo Pipes a lot so I built something similar recently for myself :) I know there are a few alternatives out there, but had to scratch my own itch.

https://www.mashups.io

New comment by pyromaker in "Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea"

pyromaker — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:01:52 +0000

I also got frustrated with text editors and decided to build something for myself too, so I don't have to repeat the process over and over.

https://www.texteditors.dev

New comment by pyromaker in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

pyromaker — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:41:09 +0000

I'm working on Fro (https://fro.app)

Haven't released properly yet - not sure if it's stable but oh well.

I don't like using my personal email to sign up for things. But there are definitely things that I do want to sign up for - newsletters, try out some services.

I know there are temporary email services, but I actually want to use these services. Of course there is Apple email that forwards to your real email.

But, I also don't want to flood my inbox.

Anyway, I wanted to receive these transactional emails in my personal Slack.

So, that's what Fro is for (https://fro.app)

- Sign up - get an email address - link to your Slack channel

And you can now catch up on those newsletters via Slack.

New comment by pyromaker in "Canyon.mid"

pyromaker — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 23:24:11 +0000

For those who remember... :) man I miss when things are simpler, slower, maybe more manual, more tedious, but more configurable, more buggy, but more creative. I understand we got here through multiple step changes of improvements, but I'm just nostalgic - good memories!

Show HN: Rich text editor as a service – my free side project

pyromaker — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:39:13 +0000

Hey all

I've used one too many rich text editors in my career to know that they are cumbersome to add and manage.

So I built a tool that I can use for myself and also let others use it.

TextEditors is a tool that lets you easily add a rich text editor to your site. You can configure it by clicking on the toolbar elements you want and we give you instructions on how to add to your site.

Pretty early days, but happy with the progress so far.

Look forward to your feedback.

https://www.texteditors.dev

PS - yes it's free :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678635

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New comment by pyromaker in "Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)"

pyromaker — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:34:03 +0000

So if we kept frameset in HTML5, we would not have had to do all these JS shenanigans?!?!?! SPA out of the box? :)

New comment by pyromaker in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

pyromaker — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:02:46 +0000

Launched Mashups back in January and been iterating over it. It's Yahoo Pipes clone - something I always wanted to make myself.

https://www.mashups.io

New comment by pyromaker in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"

pyromaker — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:45:43 +0000

I don't think there is a hope when it comes to our privacy and ads and our data being sold - none. Even if I'm somewhat off the grid or low in activities, the indirect way of targeting me still exists, by my family members, friends, people associated with me. I surrender.

New comment by pyromaker in "Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email"

pyromaker — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:24:21 +0000

I looked into Purelymail when searching around for good email solution. Google Workspace was getting a bit costly and there were too many things I did not need.

Zoho Mail provides another option - $1.95 per month I think for my use where I am (AU) and has all the features I need for my small indie business.

One other option I tried was to actually run mail myself with Linode VPS - https://mailinabox.email/

I know it sounds a little scary at the start running your own thing, but so far it's been working out great - zero issues so far. I may turn off Zoho one day and go fully into self-hosted option.

New comment by pyromaker in "Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds"

pyromaker — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:18:43 +0000

Is RSS really coming back? :) (you'll say it was never gone!) Lots of RSS related posts and comments recently. I've released Mashups a few weeks ago.

https://www.mashups.io

It's yahoo pipes clone - so you can mix and filter RSS feeds that you want.

New comment by pyromaker in "Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?"

pyromaker — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:37:10 +0000

Anyone looking to mix up their own RSS feeds? I've recently launched Mashups

https://www.mashups.io

It's the good ole Yahoo Pipes clone! Would love for those who want to mix RSS feeds to try it out!

New comment by pyromaker in "I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too"

pyromaker — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:35:24 +0000

I absolutely love RSS format. It's one of the easiest ways for devs to get data and do something quickly with it.

If you remember, Yahoo Pipies allowed devs & others quickly build something with RSS feeds. I've recently rebuilt and launched my own Yahoo Pipes clone

https://www.mashups.io

Along the way of building this tool, I came across a plenty of major websites that do not provide RSS feeds and indie devs who maintain niche tools to provide these feeds.

Then again, RSS are still plentiful!

New comment by pyromaker in "I ditched the algorithm for RSS"

pyromaker — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:50:02 +0000

I've recently launched Mashups.io - my own Yahoo Pipes tool.

https://www.mashups.io

And using the tool, I've been filtering, changing and tweaking various RSS feeds along the way.

I absolutely love RSS and absolutely loved Yahoo Pipes. For me, that got me into mashing up stuff on the web.

For devs, RSS feeds also provide a very easy way to source data. No need to get API keys and tokens, it gives you real life dataset immediately and easily. And from there, you can create tools.

New comment by pyromaker in "Salesforce will hire no more software engineers in 2025, says Marc Benioff"

pyromaker — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 01:22:34 +0000

But this IS the strategy. One thing after another, giving perception that SF is "leading" the way and enterprise customers continue to listen to the SF sales reps who just need to tell the story, so on and on it goes. :)

New comment by pyromaker in "Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project"

pyromaker — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:05:04 +0000

Good idea!

New comment by pyromaker in "Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project"

pyromaker — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:53:43 +0000

Apologies - that's been fixed. Though I haven't really optimized the demo for the mobile view I think.

Show HN: Mashups – Resurrecting Yahoo Pipes, my side project

pyromaker — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:54:10 +0000

Hey everyone.

For those who remember, Yahoo Pipes was a tool to mashup RSS feeds back in the good ole' days. :)

I really loved that tool, but of course, it was shut down.

Since then I know there's been a few tools and attempts at bringing it back.

I always wanted to create Yahoo Pipes clone myself.

So here is my small side project - Mashups.io

https://www.mashups.io

It's an MVP at the moment and well, let's see where it goes.

Thanks all!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42609819

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